In the absence of any positive regulation, the "freedom" that the right-wing absolutists envision is the freedom of the rich and powerful to control, crush, and humiliate the less-rich and less-powerful.

These all fall under the broad umbrella of big D Design, but for a marketing manager at a Fortune 500 to leave to work on what many envision is a degree in making logos and pantsuits doesn't really make sense to a lot of people.

What I envision is a disk format that is rigorously specified so that it will work reliably in the simplest embedded devices like car dashboard and home stereo players, but with completely unprotected Free Lossless Audio Codec files on them ...